What computers still can't do - a critique of artificial reason

Body and World: A Review of What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason (Hubert L. Dreyfus)

The original edition of What Computers Can’t Do comprised three roughly equal parts: (i) a harsh critical survey of the history and state of the art in AI, circa 1970; (ii) a brilliant philosophical expose’ of four hidden assumptions shoring up AI’s misplaced optimism; and (iii) a much more tentative exploration of ways to think #about intelligence without those assumptions. Part I, because it ...

A Postmodern Critique of Artificial Intelligence

I argue that the "postmodern" understanding of language that has developed over the last few decades in Anglo-American philosophy provides the basis for a useful critique of artificial intelligence. This postmodern view corrects an error in the traditional Western conception of language that has led many researchers in AI and cognitive science into taking a rule-based or information-processing ...

Computers Ltd - what they really can't do

Neural veils and the will to historical critique: why historians of science need to take the neuro-turn seriously.

Taking the neuro-turn is like becoming the victim of mind parasites. It's unwilled (although there are those who will it at a superficial level for various strategic reasons). You can't see mind parasites; they make you think things without allowing you to know why you think them. Indeed, they generate the cognitive inability to be other than delighted with the circumstances of your affected co...

Introduction to artificial intelligence and expert systems

• I. What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? • II. What are Expert Systems (ES)? ◦ Functional Components ◦ Structural Components • III. How do People Reason? • IV. How do Computers Reason? ◦ IV-1. Frames ◦ IV-2. Rule Based Reasoning ◾ IV-2a. Knowledge Engineering ◦ IV-3. Case-Based Reasoning ◦ IV-4. Neural Networks • V. Advantages and Disadvantages • VI. Additional Sources of Information ◦ VI-1. ...